yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Yeah i kinda have that same attitude as in that i'm always looking for the latest fixes and or tweaks, but longing for the day i can lay my tweaking to rest for this phone to finally be optimally useable.

When you backup with titanium, How do you restore when you do a complete wipe of your phone? I don't get the process involved. :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
When you create a titanium backup titanium creates a folder on your internal sd card. Unless you format your internal sd this folder will remain after the galaxy has been flashed, i also back this folder up to my pc before flashing, just incase **** happens. After you've flashed a new Rom install titanium and click the restore/backup tab, click the settings button, hit batch and then restore all apps and system data, job done!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akumushadow:
[Q] Another bricked Galaxy S

Hi everybody.

I know, here is a lot of threads similar to mine, but any of them doesn't describe my exact problem. It's about bricked Samsung Galaxy S, international edition.

After upgrading to froyo, my phone started to vibrate radomly and often got a black stucked background. I flashed through Odin3 v1.3, but I didn't remove lagfix before. Anyway, I decided to flash again with repartiton and then I did something very very noobish. Maybe that's because it was about 2 am. I ticked also "Phone bootloader update". After that flash I'm unable to go into download mode or recovery mode in standard ways (I could do it before flashing). Galaxy gets stuck after quick intro with music, then it's all black. The problem is that my computer doesn't recognize device, so I can't access it even through command prompt.

I tried going into dl mode with every possible button combination so don't bother yourself writing it. I tried also reinstalling drivers, but still nothing.

I know about the JIG, but let's take it as my last resort, I haven't materials to build it right now.

So, any ideas how to unbrick my phone, or at least make it visible for my pc?

I'm depressed, please make me a little bit happier :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Will keep that in mind for the future. thanks! (again)

about the EFS folder, after rooting should it show up somewhere? I can't seem to be able to find it to back it up to pc.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
You need to use a file manager that allows you to see and access the system files, root manager will do that, costs a couple of pounds, but it's worth it. Alternatively use sgs tools, this is free. Backup efs is under "apply script"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
will do that, just in case anything changes.

I have never even checked IMEI etc. What are the consequences if it's changed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sankar24:
I had the same prob.and it was solved by downgrading to 2.1 firmware with 512 pit, partition checked flashed woth odin in download mlde. Then it booted in to eclair but takes a long time. Then flashed with 2.2 with partition unchked and 803 PIT ,It was thru.As long as you can do into download mode and odin recognises the port,you should be able to bring it back to life. But I had my bad moments too. All the best
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
fantastic that there is now a proper solution for people who are having this problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coupedummy:
complete bricked i9000

as above, completely bricked,any solutions other than sending back? Nothing on display when charging ,pc wont find it...

dead as a dodo...

Any help greatly appreciated
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akumushadow:
Come on guys, there must be something I missed...

And could somebody explain me how it's possible that I used to turn SGS into download mode by 3-button combo and now I can't?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
Details... what did you do before it bricked? wat fw? etc etc
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Its a good thing that the Bootloader is still intact because you have reported that the phone actually boots.

Have you tried spamming the "adb reboot download" command in the Command Prompt? The phone might have been recognized for a second or so. If you are lucky, it might take you to the download mode.

The JIG method would definitely work for you i guess. Its easy to and cheap to make one.

That's because the 3 Button Mode is controlled by the Bootloader. Since you have tried a Bootloader update, it might have got corrupted.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsinc:
It's just that the recovery is in the bootloader you flashed over!

I wish I could tell you a way to recover. :(

Maybe some advanced dev/er ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akumushadow:
I just unbricked phone, by heating phone on radiator for 5 minutes. I was very sceptic to this method, but it really works. Couple tries of 3-button combo and I'm done. Now I'll try to upgrade but now I'll be more careful.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsinc:
:confused: how does this work? any link?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Glad that it worked. Hope you didn't burn out any internal components. :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akumushadow:
I have no idea how it works, but after heating up phone, pc was able to see SGS for about 2 seconds. That gave me hope, so I tried combo couple times in a row with plugged usb cable and turned on Odin v1.7 and it worked. I'm so relived.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsinc:
... pluged usb cable ...

read this hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=860773
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akumushadow:
One more thing! Before brick I had lagfix applied. Is it still there or flashing removed it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Repartition will remove any Lagfix applied.

Does the 3 Button Mode work normally now?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akumushadow:
Well, it never worked normally but after several repeats I was able to go into download mode. Now it's the same situation so I can say that it works "normally"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coupedummy:
the device wouldnt go into recovery via three button press so flashed with update.zip as per other thread to enable it damaging the bootloader i think...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuBBleSix:
If you want help, anytime, I really suggest you to be more accurate with your descriptions :)

I guess i figured what happened..there are a couple threads about starting the phone in download mode, even if the 3 buttons thing was not enabled before (And even if the BL is damaged)

The one working in every case is this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551

Requires very little electronics and steady hands
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
I installed the latest JPO v9 DocROM and absolutely fell in love with it!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android.francis:
you really would not want to know (1st hand) what are the consequences of an invalid or IMEI in lockdown status. Just back up your EFS all over the place (your external SD, laptop, desktop, etc).

If you really want to know, search for "invalid IMEI" here in XDA
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atkbob:
[Q] i9000m (Bell Canada): I am officially the biggest moron everrrrr (bricked?)

Ok, so long story short, I've been trying to flash my Bell Canada i9000M to Froyo but I think I borked it. So, I kinda need to load ANYTHING on my phone, although Froyo would be ideal.

I've been trying to use Odin, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, and which files I should be using. Can someone just list the files I need? Also, which version of Odin should I be using?

I can into download mode with the down key + home + power or into recovery with up + home + power. I've been trying to flash a few files but it all ends up the same: Odin says complete and success, but on my phone just I get the Samsung logo, the blue S logo with music, and then nothing, just a black screen forever.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android.francis:
Go to recovery and clear partition.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atkbob:
The cache partition? I just tried, it didn't do anything.

When I go to recovery, it gives the following text in red at the bottom after a couple lines in yellow:

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

(no such device or address)

E:copy_ddata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:

copy default media content failed.

I didn't know if that was important or not.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterslacker:
Um, yeah, that's important ... it means your SD card has likely died. It may be a formatting issue, but from what I've seen, most people who get that error have to return their phone for repairs. Sorry to give you bad news.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lasersocks:
It blows my mind how common this is!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coupedummy:
thats for the replies guys.

They three button recovery never worked on the phone so tried raven's update package to install the three button recovery.It went through then just switched the phone off,since then i haven't been able to restart the phones at all.Tried making the jig up.no success. Screen just stays blank,no success at all.

Does the jig even work for phones that wont switch on at all?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android.francis:
Okay. Try this. Flash a stock firmware via Odin. Tick RE-PARTITION. After you're done, it should work. If not, go to recovery, clear partition and format SD (sorry but it's better than a bricked phone). Repeat the whole process if needed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coconutboy84:
im having the exact same issue man, phone is DEAD.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilfred0107:
Flash completed but still bricked, warranty void?

Hi there,

Today I decided to flash my i9000 (dutch) galaxy to froyo 2.2, i did this using KIES. Everything wen't fine and the phone shut itself down. However during startup it went past the first white samsung logo but later with the collored it stuck there for a while and then went to black. It just stays this way while buzzing ones in a while (sometimes ones, later 3 short bursts of vibration). I tried a few stock roms from samfirmware.com which all complete just fine but same problem at startup. Is there any chance of fixing this? And if i have to send it back will i have warranty?

Regards,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwsk:
have you tried going to recovery volup/home/power, and clearing data/factory reset?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilfred0107:
tried it, no effect... :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilfred0107:
Rom just installs can also get in recovery but it won't start up!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desikhan:
[Q] Bricked phone, need to access internal SD

Hi,

I have a Galaxy S with Samsung default ROM of Froyo. Today I applied OneLagFix, it applied I guess and then did a reboot. Then it got stuck in a loop. So I need to go into recovery mode.

Normally I just factory reset it, and that solved my problem (I hope). But I did not backup my videos :( (went on vacation, and I do not want to lose that data).

So is there a way to access the internal SD in this state?

Thanks in advance for your help!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwsk:
I'm assuming you're reflashing via odin, make sure you have the right pit file and select re-partition w/ whatever pda you downloaded?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwsk:
I'm 70% sure that clearing data doesn't affect stuff saved on sd card like camera photos etc, and only removes programs. May want more confirmation though..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desikhan:
Thanks for your reply.

When I am in recovery mode and choose for the option factory reset, it "says", it will remove all user data, do you want to proceed. So I assume, the user data, like SMS, videos, music etc is located on the internal SD. I do not have an external SD installed in the Galaxy.

So I am afraid I will loose those things :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwsk:
There's actually two seperate storage things internally, the internal phone storage (~ 1+gb) and the internal sd card (8 or 16gb). factory reset should only wipe the phone storage, not the internal sd card. You mentioned that you've done a factory reset before - do you remember losing everything on your sd card?

http://androidforums.com/vibrant-su...oes-factory-restore-really-wipe-all-data.html
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desikhan:
Thanks for the link and explanation, that makes sense.

No I did not did a factory reset on my Galaxy S yet, only on other phones, and it resolved these kind of problems.

I will try to factory reset it, I guess I do not have another choice.

EDIT:

You were completely right nwsk! Thanks for your help again.

My camera photos/movies are still on my phone :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilfred0107:
I9000XWJM9 ##	512.PIT	Version 2.1	2010 September	DOWNLOAD

from

http://www.samfirmware.com/WEBPROTECT-i9000.htm

Is the rom i have currently installed, installed it with the right pitfile.

Any ideas for a fix?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iqbalbaskara:
Hey, glad to hear your phone is back online! that was a horror story. :) I experienced something similar yesterday, when trying to flash DXJG4 to my SGS. It wont go through certain point. My suspicion is that it's corrupted too. I'm curious.. where did you get the DXJG4?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mumps:
Can you point me to the thread please?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sanmiauz:
[Help] Bricked Phone

I had done a number of flashing by using odin before to Jp2 JP3 but recently i tried flashing a new asian firmware I9000TGYJH1 and something bad happen.

After flashing I9000TGYJH1, My phone is unable to powerup by Holdingthe power button. I tried remove the battery for more than 60 secs and put it back. it still doesnt power up. Anyone had similar problem and got the solution please give me a solution.. i think it mess up big time. Please help! Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
check this topic out, it might give you some insight

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=757562

the guy was pretty much in the same situation you were in, he managed to recover.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sanmiauz:
Thank You very much ALLGAMER : )

after numerous tries of trying to power it. none work

but i keep trying and pray suddenly it manage to turn on an went into download mode

i can go into download mode then i quickly reflash the same firmware. it works now but i have no network ... maybe i should try another modem firmware to test : )

thanks alot
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sanmiauz:
After flashing another modem ... the same problem occur again as my power button doesnt work. but luckily the 3 combination button for download mode works.

Off to try another modem firmware : ) and now it works

I9000TGYJH1 PDA with JG1 Modem

It is very very scary experience for me to brick it this way:X
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Good to hear your phone is back from the land of the dead :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoneemooz:
I got the DXJG4 from Samsung-firmwares... a quick Google shows some similar posts in other forums about people complaining about its corruption...

Stupid me should have looked up the problem after the first few tries of it not going though. I was able to solve the problem though. After fully charging my phone I just flashed it back to DXJF4 and then used KIES to officially update it to DXJG4. Now all is well. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iqbalbaskara:
Ah yes, so their DXJG4 is corrupted. Thanks for the confirmation. Btw, good idea reverting to DXJF4 first :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IceFork:
Another with the same problem. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KrishhBhola:
phone bricked!

Hello guys i was installing lag fix one but i have delete the files in to the file explorer and i have reboot my phone and now its still hanging when im turn my phone on.

i see onlythe begin screen on the phone and then it stills there.

somebody help me !±)

:confused::confused::confused:

i have a rooted phone verison jf3
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatherboard:
Shut it off, then press vol down + home + power and see if you can get into the boot loader (yellowish android with a shovel), then you'll have to reflash your device. I guess you know how to do that...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arthurvanerps:
Help me please i think my galaxy s is bricked!

So i tried updating the firmware from JM2 to JM5 using odin. I installed the correct items (pit, code=pda, csc, modem=phone). Then I realised i couldn't get into download mode so i used adb to get into that. Odin recognised my phone and i pressed start but Odin froze on firmware.frys or something like that.. (i can't remember). So i exit Odin and reboot the phone only to be greeted with this (see picture). Now pc won't recognize my phone and i can't go into recovery mode (volume up, home, on/off button) and tried battery removed for loger than 30 seconds but no change.. I'm so frustrated :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MKVFTW:
Try something for me. Start odin, plug in your phone and start odin. Now when your at the brick screen press vol down and power at the same time. If that doesn't work try several different configurations of buttons while plug in and at the brick screen.

I was up the same creek and i managed to get into download mode via the method above. I have a crippled phone with no 3 button download from the off state.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
I'll like to see that

I tried what you mentioned, but none of that worked for me, i ended up returning the phone to Bell, to have it send to Samsung... still waiting for it to come back.

:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arthurvanerps:
Thanks but nothing is working! I have one of those '3buttons' disabled.. Thank you so much though! I think I'm going to send it in.. Just had it for one day, i could beat myself over this..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.sw:
:-\

too bad you didn't do a little research over the forum here.

Although I do suggest you to keep trying few different combinations.. maybe you gonna hit something big :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
It was mentioned in another thread that someone managed to get into download mode while plugged into the charger. Try that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i was reading on another post that "apparently" if you can warm up the phone without destroying it

then you might be able to get into the Download Mode (volume down + home + power)

it needs to be hotter than room temperature, but not hot enough to damage the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ziadsa:
upgrading bell JH2 galaxy S i9000m bricked my phone

Hi,

my phone is brocked.

i tried to update the phone,

my phone was rooted, and i decided to update to the new JH2 update,

i loaded the single file in PDA section and i checked re-partition and auto-reboot and reset.

it flashed ok, now my phone boot right after flashing to the recovery screen with the following error:

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

(No such file or directory)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:copy default media content failed

the options i have is:

wipe data...

wipe cach

apply sdcard:update.zip

reboot

if i hit reboot the phone will boot up and i receive the samsung S colored motion and black screen.

no further info

any advise please?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilfred0107:
For anyone with this problem, just keep trying, finally i had a 2.1 one rom that worked and after flashing a 2.2 rom it worked like i hoped. However, my simcard doesn't work! anyone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pileot:
[Q] is my phone bricked? black screen after "update"

plugged phone into kies

installed the update (2.2 froyo)

restarted phone

black screen

I got a GT-I9000M, updated through kies, no lagfix or any**** like that just stock fw and connected through kies, now nothing.

Phone boots fine, goes through the starting animation, then black. I CAN get into download mode and CAN boot to recovery, so thats not a problem. Tried flashing the stock FW through odin but i get the following error on restart:

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/blockmmcblk0p1

(I/O error)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed.

WTF does this mean my internal memory is broke or just not formatted right? how do i fix this? HELP!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunked:
Upgrading to JK4 though Kies bricked my phone!

Hey guys, I Just recently updated my unlocked Bell Vibrant through Kies to the official JK4 firmware and everything went fine as it rebooted and I was able to get into android and verify 2.2 froyo from the settings menu.

Then all of a sudden I went to check my txt messages and then it kept of force closing the application and the phone just restarted itself. Now the phone won't boot after the Galaxy S logo animation.

I went into recovery mode and it's keeps giving me this message in RED:

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(Invalid argument)

E:copy_data_default_apk:Can't mount DBDATA:

your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

Anyone have any ideas as to what went wrong and how i'm able to fix this?

I've only had this phone for 2 months and I can't really afford to buy a new phone right now. :(

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basti107:
Bricked my SGS

Hi, i have a simlock-free SGS.

tried flashing via odin gave me the "phone-!-pc or Black Screen of Death"

hoever, if i follow these instructions i can not go to download-screen.

"This screen does not always mean your phone is bricked. If you have a hardware locked vibrant, maybe, however, if your phone is not hardware locked, unplug the USB cable from the phone, Hold down Vol UP+Vol Down+Power, the screen will flash black, continue holding down all 3 buttons, you will see the "phone--!--PC" screen again, continue holding all 3 buttons, the screen will flash black again, release the power button only. This will put you into Download Mode."

ADB does not recognize my phone "device not found"

is there any chance of recovering it?

i do not like to send it to samsung
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kensentme:
[Q] Help Needed! I (semi)bricked my phone.

I made a terrible mistake, flashed a rom and a kernel that were incompatible. My phone got stuck at boot. I have previously used odin so I thought no problem, I'll just flash a new kernel. But now odin doesn't recognize it anymore. Kies doesn't and adb doesn't. I can still get into download mode and recovery mode. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything on four different computers, but nothing works. I've pretty much given up on Odin unless someone could come up with a solution. I really don't know what is going on here.

I have clockwork recovery, and I wonder if it would be possible to flash the new kernel from my external sd card. But the problem is that clockwork recovery can't access it, some error about missing app2sd partition. I can't mount it, unmount it or format it. I guess there is something that must be done to the card, but i have no idea what, i've been googling all night and didn't find anything useful. I'm getting really frustrated here, any advice would be greatly appreciated.